The CSRD has been working in concert with the University of California
Office of Technology Transfer (UCOTT), to investigate options for
improving access to intellectual property for public sector agricultural
research and innovation. This issue is crucial both to crop research in
the U.S. land grant university system and to sustainable food security
research in the international agricultural development context.
Publications on Intellectual Property Clearing:
An intellectual property clearinghouse for agricultural
biotechnology
Gregory Graff and David Zilberman,
Nature Biotechnology,
Volume 19, December 2001, pp. 1179-1180
Towards an intellectual property clearinghouse for agricultural
biotechnology
(a longer version of the Nature Biotechnology essay)
Gregory Graff and David Zilberman,
Intellectual Property Strategy Today,
No. 3-2001, Fall 2001
Intellectual Property Clearinghouse Mechanisms for Agriculture: Summary of
an Industry, Academia, and International Development Round Table
Gregory Graff, Alan Bennett, Brian Wright, and David Zilberman,
Intellectual Property Strategy Today,
No. 3-2001, Fall 2001
Events on Intellectual Property Clearing:
CSRD held an industry, academia, and international development round table at Berkeley on
February 16, 2001 on INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CLEARINGHOUSE MECHANISMS FOR AGRICULTURE. Over 100
agricultural researcher, technology transfer, and intellectual
property professionals attended from universities, industry, and
international development organizations.
See above for a summary of this round table.
Presentations included the following:
David Zilberman
Co-director CSRD
and
Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, U.C. Berkeley
"Introduction to IP Clearinghouse Mechanisms"
John Barton
Professor, School of Law, Stanford University
"Will IP Bury Agricultural Research"
C.S. Prakash
Professor, Plant Biology, Tuskeegee University
"Agricultural Biotechnology Research for Developing Countries:
Technology Transfer Issues"
Brian Wright
Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, U.C. Berkeley
"IPR and Freedom to Operate in Agricultural Research"
Irving Rappaport
Founder and Vice President, Intellectual Property, Aurigin Systems, Inc.
"Visualizing and understanding an intellectual property portfolio in
context"
Richard Gilbert
Professor, Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley
"'Mutually Assured Destruction' and other theories of patent
licensing"
Nir Kossovsky
Founder and CEO, The Patent and License Exchange, Inc.
"Intellectual property clearing mechanisms based on financial options
markets"
David Kryder
Director of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer,
International Service for the Acquisition of Agro-biotech Applications,
Cornell University
"Confidence and trust: the keys to success"
Alan Bennett
Executive Director, Office of Technology Transfer, University of California
and
Professor, Vegetable Crop Science, U.C. Davis
"Public research under intellectual property: building a public
agbiotechnology toolbox"
Catherine Ives
Director, Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project, Michigan State University
"IP clearinghouse: why and what? A view from the Agricultural
Biotechnology Support Project"
Richard Jefferson
Executive Director
Center for the Application of Molecular Biology to
International Agriculture (CAMBIA)
Canberra, Australia
"The enabling technologies - implementation technologies conundrum: IP
mechanisms to decentralize and maximize innovative capability throughout
the worldwide agricultural community"
Robert Herdt
Vice President for Program Administration, The Rockefeller Foundation
"Intellectual property: possibilities for developing country
agriculture"
Roundtable discussion
"Assessing the possibilities for IP clearing in agriculture"
For more information on this topic, we encourage you to contact
David Zilberman or Gregory Graff.
